Kim Przekota announces 11th Subcircuit bid

Cook County Assistant State's Attorney Kim Przekota has announced plans to seek a judicial vacancy in Cook County's redrawn 11th Subcircuit. That's a link to Przekota'a campaign website in the preceding sentence; a link has been added to the Candidate List Sidebar on this site. (There is also a campaign Facebook page.)

According to her campaign bio, Przekota has served in the CCSAO since 2009, currently serving as lead prosecutor handling homicide cases in a felony courtroom at the George Leighton Criminal Courthouse. She has been licensed to practice law in Illinois since 2008, according to ARDC.

On the personal side, Przekota is an Oregon native who went to college at Iona College (now Iona University) in New Rochelle, New York. She was a two-sport athlete in college, competing on both the women's swimming and water polo teams. She has been coaching water polo at Loyola Academy for the past 13 years.

After getting her M.A. in history from Iona, Przekota came to Chicago for law school at DePaul. She never left. She and her husband, Chris, a Chicago native who also swam and played water polo at Iona, live in Park Ridge with their three children.